OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 42. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	905
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	182
Papua New Guinean Genomes Reveal the Complex Settlement of North Sahul	125
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	118
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	104
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	100
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	96
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	91
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	87
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	86
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	83
The Scorpionfly (Panorpa cognata) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	82
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	78
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	75
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	74
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	74
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	68
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	64
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	64
A General Substitution Matrix for Structural Phylogenetics	63
Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence and Recent Spread of the Syphilis Agent,Treponema pallidum	62
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	61
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	60
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	60
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	60

FishmiRNA: An Evolutionarily Supported MicroRNA Annotation and Expression Database for Ray-Finned Fishes	56
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	51
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	50
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	50
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans	50
Genetic Differentiation is Constrained to Chromosomal Inversions and Putative Centromeres in Locally Adapted Populations With Higher Gene Flow	48
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	48
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	47
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	46
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	45
New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread	45
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	45
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	45
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	44
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	43
Evolution of Brain-Expressed Biogenic Amine Receptors into Olfactory Trace Amine-Associated Receptors	43
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	43
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	42